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In this talk, we present the results from our recent global reanalysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), where the DGLAP-evolving nPDFs are constrained by nuclear hard process data from deep inelastic $l+A$ scattering (DIS)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. J. Eskola , V. J. Kolhinen , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We perform a comprehensive global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs), combining all available data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), as well as inclusive weak boson and jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 C. Cocuzza , N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

We present a new public code, FPPDF, to perform global fits of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The fitting methodology follows that implemented by the MSHT collaboration, namely applying a fixed polynomial parameterisation of the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 J. M. Cruz-Martinez , T. Giani , L. A. Harland-Lang

A determination of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) from a global fit to a dataset including measurements from the LHC has been performed. The determinations have been carried out according to the NNPDF methodology, leading to a fit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-04 Nathan Hartland

We present a review of the conceptual basis, present knowledge and recent progress in the field of global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs). After introducing the theoretical foundations and methodological approaches…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-26 M. Klasen , H. Paukkunen

We present all-order results for the highest three large-x logarithms of the splitting functions P_qg and P_gq and of the coefficient functions C_phi,q, C_2,g and C_L,g for structure functions in Higgs- and gauge-boson exchange DIS in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 A. A. Almasy , G. Soar , A. Vogt

In this talk, I present the brand new results from the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations on the combination of all previously published inclusive deep inelastic cross sections at HERA for neutral and charged current $e^\pm p$ scattering for zero…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-18 Zhiqing Zhang

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

I explain the current status of parton-distribution-function (PDF) studies and future experimental prospects on their determinations. First, unpolarized PDFs of the nucleon are introduced as a field of precision QCD physics including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-17 S. Kumano

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) are a key ingredient in theoretical predictions for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) observables and play a central role in the extraction of precision Standard Model (SM) and Beyond the SM (BSM) parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Richard D. Ball , Tommaso Giani , Felix Hekhorn , Jaco ter Hoeve , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo , Roy Stegeman , Maria Ubiali

We present the first lattice results on isovector unpolarized and longitudinally polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) at physical pion mass. The PDFs are obtained using the large-momentum effective field theory (LaMET) framework…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-09-12 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Tomomi Ishikawa , Jian-Hui Zhang

We investigate the evolution of parton densities at small values of the momentum fraction, x, by including resummed anomalous dimensions in the renormalization group equations. The resummation takes into account the leading-logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 R. K. Ellis , F. Hautmann , B. R. Webber

We introduce a Hybrid Variable Flavor Number Scheme for heavy flavors, denoted H-VFNS, which incorporates the advantages of both the traditional Variable Flavor Number Scheme (VFNS) as well as the Fixed Flavor Number Scheme (FFNS). By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-22 A. Kusina , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , T. Jezo , K. Kovarik , T. Stavreva , J. Y. Yu

At large values of x the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are poorly constrained and there are considerable variations between different global fits. Data at such high x have already been published by the ZEUS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-01 ZEUS Collaboration

Studying the structure of nucleons is not only important to understanding the strong interactions of quarks and gluons, but also to improving the precision of new-physics searches. Since a broad class of experiments, including the LHC and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-01-02 Huey-Wen Lin

We present a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the NNPDF2.3 set, which includes a photon PDF, and QED contributions to parton evolution. We describe the implementation of the combined QCD+QED evolution in the NNPDF…

Hessian PDF reweighting, or "profiling", has become a widely used way to study the impact of a new data set on parton distribution functions (PDFs) with Hessian error sets. The available implementations of this method have resorted to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-27 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen

The perturbatively-stable scheme of Next-to-Leading order (NLO) calculations of cross-sections for multi-scale hard-processes in DIS-like kinematics is developed in the framework of High-Energy Factorization. The evolution equation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-14 Maxim Nefedov

Measurements of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) provide a powerful tool to probe the fundamental structure of protons and other nuclei. The DIS cross sections can be expressed in terms of structure functions which are conventionally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Tuomas Lappi , Heikki Mäntysaari , Hannu Paukkunen , Mirja Tevio

We present a new methodology that is able to yield a simultaneous determination of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton alongside any set of parameters that determine the theory predictions; whether within the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-12 Shayan Iranipour , Maria Ubiali